Okay, so, the protagonist and heroine come across an old and powerful acquaintance of hers randomly she hadn't seen since humans killed her parents and kingdom 300 years ago.
And this guy thing whatever uses his honed wisdom to try to test the protagonist's resolve. Sort of.
Quote:
「クカ、竜族を人というか、面白い奴だ……だがお前はこの先ずっとリリィと共に暮らしていくの か？」
「そうですけど……なぜ？」
「竜族は長寿だ、俺が見てきた中で竜族は数千年生きる奴もいる、だがお前は違う、お前は人族だ、良くて生き られる月日は百年かそれ以下だ、その中でお前が先に死んだらどうなる？」
「‥……」
「竜族と人族は長年争いしかしていない、そんな中でお前はリリィと共に旅をしているがお前はその先を見てい ない、お前がもしも死に、いなくなったらリリィはまた孤独の中に身を投じる、それにお前の死に方が例えば人 に殺された……となればどうだ？リリィは一生人族に恨みを持ち、生き続ける、それを考えてお前はリリィとい るのか？」
「……それは」
「お前の善意は時に悪意にもなる、リリィと旅をするということはその覚悟がなければいけない、その覚悟がな いというのならば俺はリリィとの旅はお勧めしない、もし覚悟があるとなれば俺は止めんが、覚悟がないとなれ ば別だ、覚悟もなしにリリィと旅をするならば俺はお前を許さないしそれはリリィの愚弄として今この場でお前 を冥府に送るぞ」
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The heroine already hated humans from 300 years ago when they killed all her family. So the 'what if she hates humans forever' argument was a dead end from the start. Rather she's slightly been rehabilitating since meeting the MC.
'Stop traveling with her in case you might die' literally doesn't solve anything. Oh no, you might live a full life but because humans have shorter life spans you should feel bad for dying in such a short span of time! What? Why is he arguing life span differences to the one with the far shorter life?
In the first place the protag saved her life and brought her out of a 300 year isolation to begin with. Isolated forever if he dies? A little fucking late. Plus protag keeps almost dying in large due to her fault, making her extra attentive toward him. If the prtoag just coldly ditched her at this point it wouldn't be much better than being brutally killed, honestly. The wise (kek) guy even threatens to kill the protagonist over this to carry out his own goddamn prophecy even to somehow protect her from this.
All it was is a you should feel bad speech for being human with literally no advice or solution. There's no response to anything he said because it's all fucking stupid.